I always appreciate it when people put their decision-making and evaluation thought processes online when making a purchase. It helps not only them (to write it out) but the rest of us too. I came across this post by Jonathan Camp over at irondojo where he runs through his evaluation of Mozy, Jungle Disk, and […]
Continue readingFile this one under both “oldie but a goodie” and “insanely useful”. Update 01/03/2014:David Sparks has an updated screencast that shows the best way to do this in modern Mac OS X. As you probably know, Mac OSX has “Save As PDF” built into the operating system, so you can print to a PDF from […]
Continue readingI am not remotely close to being a lawyer, but I’m always interested to see their use of electronic documents. Aside from the obvious productivity benefits from going paperless in a law office, I was surprised (though possibly I shouldn’t have been) to learn that there is a level of gamesmanship that can come in […]
Continue readingI’ve mentioned Shoeboxed quite a few times here on DocumentSnap as a good way to handle receipts and business cards if you don’t have the time or the equipment to do the scanning yourself. Basically how it works is you take your receipts, business cards, and other documents and put them into a pre-paid (usually- […]
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Is your data secure in Evernote? Evernote has a very detailed security page, and among other things they talk about how they encrypt your data in transit (when uploading and downloading) and they talk about how you can encrypt text within a note. There is one notable exception: they don’t talk about encrypting the files […]
Continue readingSometimes rather than creating new PDF files every time, you want to scan to an existing document. Over on the ScanSnap Community, they’ve posted a helpful video showing how to use Adobe Acrobat (which comes with the ScanSnap S1500) to scan to Acrobat and then add the pages to an existing document. The video is […]
Continue readingAs I have written about before, I always find it fascinating to read about different scanning projects, especially when it comes to scanning old stuff. Over at the GalleyCat blog, Jason Boog writes about using Optical Character Recognition software to dig through orphan works. What the heck are “orphan works”? I didn’t know either. According […]
Continue readingOnline backup vendor Carbonite has recently rolled out an update to their client software, Carbonite 4.0. Sadly, the Carbonite 4.0 update is for Windows only, but the company has stated that the Mac version is in the works. If you’re an existing Carbonite customer, they’re in the process of rolling out the update. If you’re […]
Continue readingThe other day I posted an Applescript to OCR documents using PDFPen. In the comments, awesome DocumentSnap reader Josh requested that it be done as a Hazel rule instead. Given that my love for Hazel is well documented, I am happy to oblige. I created a folder and then created the following Hazel rule to […]
Continue readingYears ago I read article by blogger Darren Barefoot in which he relates how he likes to check out what the smart people are doing with respect to their tools. That article has always stuck with me, because I tend to follow the same approach. With that in mind, I’ve noticed that a number of […]
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